Distinctive elements of our educational project

The desire to learn reaches the pupils through their teachers’ own attitude and is one of the core principles of our project. That is why on-going training and staying up-to-date with the latest techniques is vital for our teachers. This means that we are at the forefront of education, we optimise resources and are able to prepare the pupils for their academic lives and the challenges they will face in the future in the world of work.

Top teaching staff

At Globeducate we believe our schools should be places where the whole educational community should constantly be undergoing training and, therefore, all our teachers participate in frequent training days and workshops. For example, all our teaching staff took part in a workshop on Impact in the Classroom which helped them discover how to have a greater impact on the pupils’ learning. Thanks to this kind of action our staff are highly motivated and efficient.

Another Globeducate scheme is the Learning Coaches for Educational Coaching, some of the school’s teachers who have been trained as Coaches to help and give other teachers feedback regarding their development and growth as teachers.

Finally, Globeducate has a teaching quality monitoring system by means of a systematic process of development, measuring, support and improvement called Globeducate Platinum Standard.

Lifelong Learning - Impact on Learning

Globeducate organises regular training sessions for all its teachers. In the last year, all our teachers have participated in a training workshop entitled Impact on Learning in which practical strategies were shared that can have a great impact on student learning, according to multiple scientific studies worldwide. Some of the strategies shared were: The Role of Questioning, Motivation and Challenge in the classroom, Systematic Checking of Student Progress and The Importance of Feedback. The teachers enjoyed the course and are implementing what they learned in their classrooms.

Educational Coaching

As part of Globeducate's progress towards educational excellence, in 2017 the Educational Coaching initiative was launched in the schools. Teachers representing the different Globeducate schools have been trained as Coaches with the aim of helping their colleagues to achieve excellence in their classrooms.

In order to improve every school and ensure educational excellence, Globeducate has implemented a quality framework we call The Globeducate Platinum Standard. The aim of the Platinum Standard is to help the Globeducate schools evaluate the quality of the teaching they offer. Its principles are backed by some of the best practices used in educational systems worldwide, and the mission and values of Globeducate.

It is based on the use of quality indicators that help the Globeducate community to:

• Measure the standards and quality of each school and of our group.
• Recognise the key strengths of each school and of our group.
• Identify the areas where it is necessary to maintain a high standard or where improvements are needed.
• Identify the priorities and create a plan for improvement.

To determine the quality of a Globeducate school and identify those areas where improvements are needed, five core areas are evaluated in each school:

1. Effectiveness of Leadership and Management.
2. Quality of Learning.
3. The Globeducate Mission and Value Proposition.

All this requires constant training for the teachers in order to improve the quality of their teaching and help them be more effective, along with high expectations for all the pupils, the use of questions to stimulate reflection, involvement and participation. There are also feedback 360º mechanisms to help with the communication between the teachers and students or among the students themselves.
All in all, Globeducate Platinum Standard is a tool that evaluates the educational level and quality of each school within the group to help them improve, finding optimum strategies for improvement in all areas.